When Robert E. Fellows, MD, PhD, professor emeritus, started the Iowa Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) in 1977, no one anticipated it would become one of the oldest and strongest dual MD/PhD programs in the nation. The Iowa MSTP has produced 245 alumni who are physician-scientists with careers ranging from basic science research to clinical […]
Sponsored by the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, the 33rd North American Cystic Fibrosis Conference (NACFC) was held in Nashville, Tennessee, earlier this month. A number of members of the research program at the University of Iowa made the trip. This included faculty in the adult and pediatric pulmonary divisions, a pediatric endocrinologist, study nurses, pathologists, microbiologists, […]